
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Overleaf Copilot records 0 monthly visits with — growth and Freemium pricing.

ChatGPT polishing, grammar checks and translation inside the Overleaf editor
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
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| Official Domain | deepseek.com | chromewebstore.google.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
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| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| 0 (—) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 0 |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.4 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Browser Extension |
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High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Leverages a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (49B active parameters out of 1.6T on V4-Pro) to process up to 1 million tokens with minimal latency and memory overhead.
Pioneered by DeepSeek-R1 and integrated into V3.2 and V4 thinking modes, exposing step-by-step self-verification for complex math, logic, and code debugging.
Drops input token costs to $0.003/1M on Flash and $0.022/1M on V4-Pro for cache hits, with 50% lower rates during off-peak UTC hours.
Provides free access at chat.deepseek.com and on iOS/Android with document uploads, reasoning mode, and web search without paywalling core models.

ChatGPT polishing, grammar checks and translation inside the Overleaf editor
Select a passage and have ChatGPT revise it in place, with the option to state the specific revisions you want.
Checks grammar in both English and Chinese, useful for authors writing in a second language.
Translates text while preserving academic register and discipline-specific terminology rather than producing generic output.
A library of curated academic prompts that you can browse, reuse and share, plus fully custom prompts for your own style.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
#2Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.

Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.

Cross-platform AI writing assistant delivering real-time grammar correction, tone alignment, authorship tracking, and team style guides.
Paraphrase, proofread and summarize text with an AI writing workspace

Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.

SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software

SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.

Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.
Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Cross-platform AI writing assistant delivering real-time grammar correction, tone alignment, authorship tracking, and team style guides.
Paraphrase, proofread and summarize text with an AI writing workspace
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place